Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, M. Christian Green, and John Witte, Jr., principal investigators of an SSRC-funded project "Shari'a, Family, and Democracy…
Shari’a, Family, and Democracy
secularism
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…
Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts
Between 2006-2009, with the support of the Teagle Foundation, four self-identifying secular liberal arts campuses—Bucknell University and Macalester, Vassar, and…
Is there a secular body?
Is there a secular body? Or, in somewhat different terms, is there a particular configuration of the human sensorium—of sensibilities,…
Landmarks in the critical study of secularism
In September of 2010, Talal Asad, William E. Connolly, Charles Hirschkind, and I met at the annual American Political Science…
Secularism and atheism: a discussion at the Institute for Advanced Study
Stefanos Geroulanos’s An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought---the subject of an ongoing forum here at The…